The Actors Ichikawa Omezo IV and Nakmura Tokizo III in the Play The Crane and The Turtle (Tsurukame)

Born in 1886 in Yamanashi Prefecture, he moved to Tokyo as a child and studied traditional Nihonga painting under Kubota Beisen, who gave him the artistic name “Shunsen.” He later attended the Tokyo School of Fine Arts and developed a strong interest in kabuki theater while working as an illustrator for the newspape...